She got voted off tonight, which means that the nasty jerk who put:
Spoiler alert
Gretchen is the winner.
In the other thread is WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!
The end of the best show I have ever watched is NOT ruined anymore!!
So, speculate, debate, discuss…
but PLEASE, no more: “I know the winner, and here it is.”
I know some of you think this is a stupid show - and thats your perrogative, but some of us are really enjoying this, dont ruin it. Okay?
GO RICHARD!!!
Goddamnit kellibelli. I haven’t seen the show yet tonight. I’m in SF and it doesn’t come on for two hours. Thanks for fucking ruining my night. 
::goes off sulking::
Awww, fuck.
I am sorry. Really.
Dammit. I forgot about the delay on the west coast. Watch it anyway, its an awesome episode, even knowingthe vote.
I am so sorry.
Shit.
It’s ok. I was half kidding. I’ll go and watch it tonight. I really don’t care if you give away the ending, I just saw the opportunity and had to give you some shit. 
It’s tough being here on the West Coast. Everything gets to us three hours late.
And Richard’s alliance held up, did you notice that? Everyone else voted hodge-podge but Richard’s alliance got rid of the first member of the former other tribe. Richard and Sue say the goal is to get rid of all the other tribe first and if the alliance holds they may very well do it.
Richard is awesome!
Spoiler Alert!!!
I started watching this show about 3 weeks ago and I LOVE IT!! I was very surprised to see Gretchen go. I thought for sure Greg was going to go until he won immunity. I do believe that Gervaise will get voted off next week.
Who is your best guess as to who will win? I’m thinking Sue, but Colleen seemed to be ignored as far as getting any votes. Maybe she’ll slip in as the silent winner?? Also, Rich seems to be a pretty likable guy. I’d like to keep him around until the end.
Here’s what I’m waiting for, regarding the voting alliance. Picture the following scenario, if you will…
Five people remain on the island, Richard’s alliance and one other. (For the hell of it, let’s say it’s Greg… he won the immunity challenge tonight, right?) Then, Greg wins the immunity challenge… the alliance is screwed! They have to vote one of their own out, opening all the tensions right back up for the last couple of episodes.
Now THAT’S an episode I can’t wait to see. Let’s just hope it happens…
IMHO, I’m going with Richard to win it all. He seems to annoy the fewest people, which will be very important when the kicked-off people come back to select the winner. Besides, he gets to sleep with the girls! Too bad he can’t enjoy the opportunity…
I don’t get it. Wasn’t Gretchen the 1 member of the beautiful tribe who didn’t want to go along with voting the other tribe out first? Why would the Alliance vote her off?
Also, am I the only 1 who suspects that Richard may have been tanking the challenge? Not that he is Superman or anything but as the snorkeler I figured he would make it to the 2nd round. Perhaps he felt save enough on this vote to avoid the impression that he was a strong competitor.
I guess I’m the only one so far that cannot stand Richard. He is so arrogant! That being said, I really want Gervase voted off. When he was gloating to the camera last week that he had literally done nothing (not to mention he flubbed two challenges for his tribe) AND he said the only thing dumber than women were cows… well, what the hell is he still doing there? Charm can only get you so far.
There is a very definite line of disinformation being put out by CBS. In the weeks prior to tonight I had heard through 3 separate channels (this MB being one) that it was Gretchen who would win. I was very shocked . . . and yes, very happy when she was this weeks loser. Only because it means no one really has any clue who wins.
Back to the channels. I work in radio, and I heard via a couple of respected industry sources that a station in Seattle had accidently leaked the winner - what I was told was that it was “a female with a German name”. Who else could it be ? Then there was the female lawyer (Stacey ??) who was on CBS the day after she was kicked off not two weeks ago. She was asked by the interviewer to give a one word answer to names being submitted. When “Gretchen” was asked, she answered “survivor”. The local press had a field day, obviously she had messed up, she had by mistake given the winner.
As Kelli has said . . . NOPE
It is so wide open, and I love it. I will be watching on the edge of my seat every week, eating all this disinformation - and drama with a proverbial spoon.
I love this show.
The show is pretty darn entertaining, but it will become much less so if Richard’s alliance just votes off a new person each week. Why watch when you know who the final 4 will basically be.
However, after this week, I think Rudy will break off from them and Greg will do something devious to break up the alliance. Since my favorite (Gretchen) is now gone, I will hold out hope the Greg or Sean makes it to the end.
There’s no way the alliance can hold up for long because both Richard and Sue are such devious backstabbers that they will turn on each other before they get rid of the others.
My bet for next booted off the island is Gervase-lazy, sexist parasite, or Rudy-grumpy, cantankerous coot who doesn’t pull his own weight.
I was glad Gretchen went because the show can still surprise me.
My vote for winner-Greg
If anyone out of the alliance had any sense, they would organize the rest of the tribe to kick out Richard who is the spine of the alliance. Without him, the rest of his group wouls break up and re-form with others. Rudy wont bow out, because he said: “Sometimes you have to get dirty” he was initially against voting alliances, but now knows its his best chance.
I want Jenna to win, she’s so cuuuuute!
I assume you are aware of the photo that “proved” Gretchen was the next off, and that Gevaise was wearing the necklace. Check out http://www.survivorsucks.com. In the NEWS section there are some amusing attempts to analyze the photographic evidence. Perhaps it was more amusing before last night’s episode, but still worth a giggle.
OK, I got sucked into this damn show the last two weeks despite my hatred for reality TV, so here’s my take on last night’s episode:
Before the two tribes merged, the strategy was to vote off the weakest members so that your tribe remained strong. However, now that the tribes have merged the stragety has reversed. You now need to vote off the stongest people because they are a threat to everyone else who could be beaten in an immunity challenge. The voting alliance probably would have voted off Greg, since he posed the biggest threat, but he had immunity. So the next logical person was Gretchen. She was strong, smart, and would probably kick everybody’s ass in the next challenge if she was still there.
The only hope for the rest of the group is to band together to break up Richard’s alliance. If they don’t do it soon, they will not have enough people left to challenge the alliance and they will be dropped one by one until only the alliance remains. Things will get really interesting when that happens.
I dont think last nights challenge was fair.
Women by nature do not have the lung capacity that men do. Maybe the next challenge will be : “Who has the biggest feet?” the women wont win that one either.
Ya…but we get to sleep in!!!
I said the exact same thing to my wife last night. As soon as they got in the water, I knew the women weren’t going to win. Here’s hoping the next challenges aren’t so biased…